UT suspends Case McCoy, Jordan Hicks for Alamo Bowl

Two University of Texas football players were suspended for breaking team rules Friday, the day before the Longhorns were scheduled to play in the Valero Alamo Bowl.

Two sources close to the program confirmed that the two suspended players are quarterback Case McCoy and linebacker Jordan Hicks. UT coach Mack Brown declined to name the players at an Alamo Bowl press conference Friday morning, but said they would be sent home.

Earlier on Friday, KENS-TV reported that a 21-year-old woman accused two UT players of sexual assault early that morning at a downtown San Antonio hotel, but police declined to confirm that football players were involved.

Police said no arrests have been made, and no charges have been filed.

According to a police report obtained by the Express-News, the incident happened between 2 and 2:40 a.m. on Friday. The woman said she met two men at a nightclub and invited them back to her room at the Holiday Inn Riverwalk. She admitted to drinking at least four alcoholic beverages before inviting them to her room, the report said.

She told police one man had sex with her while the other stood and watched, but she didn't remember the situation in detail.

The report didn't give the woman's version of how the situation escalated. It indicated that the suspects were both students, one of them a 6-foot, 180-pound white male and the other a 6-foot-2, 235-pound black male.

The woman had a bruise on her knee and one on her arm, the report said.

UT spokesman John Bianco said the university is continuing to gather information on the case.

McCoy, a junior from Graham and the younger brother of NFL quarterback Colt McCoy, is the Longhorns' second-string quarterback. He started the team's regular-season finale at Kansas State earlier this month, and also made five starts last year. He was not expected to play in the Alamo Bowl against Oregon State.

Hicks, a junior from Cincinnati, began the season as one of UT's top defensive players, but had been sidelined since injuring his hip and groin on Sept. 15 at Mississippi. He wasn't expected to return to action until next season.

While making an unrelated comment about his team's depth during Friday's press conference, Brown referred to Hicks as one of UT's "team leaders."

The Longhorns arrived in San Antonio on Monday and have been staying downtown at the Marriott Rivercenter hotel. Brown declined to answer a question Friday about whether he had instituted a team curfew.

Brown said he planned to address the issue with his team when he met with players after the press conference.

"You have policies that you go by," Brown said. "We understand that when you have an issue, you deal with it and move forward."

This is not the first time Brown has disciplined players on a bowl trip. Following the 1999 season, four UT players – including starters Kwame Cavil and Aaron Humphrey – were suspended for violating team rules two days before a Cotton Bowl loss to Arkansas.

The last case of Longhorns players getting involved in legal trouble came last May, when current players Barrett Matthews, Alex Okafor and Kenny Vaccaro were arrested after they refused a police officer's order to leave an Austin pizza parlor. The misdemeanor charges against those players were later dropped.